3. Tell it to open the link using Steam—your Portal download will begin immediately.

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4. Rejoice. To get to the other games, check the box for "view games library" or click "update news," which'll bring you to the main Steam screen.

(And download TF2 once Steam servers stop being busy, so I can shoot you in the face.)

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5. BTW, this only works once—if you have to close Steam, you have to reopen it with this trick.

6. We opened Portal and started playing just fine, though we're hearing you might get booted again once you try to open the actual game. Worst case scenario, you'll have the files ahead of everybody else. (A good thing come the rush tomorrow.)

6a. Be disgusted that Steam stores all of your game data in the Documents folder. WTF, Valve?